Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2016 Winners Edition

www.finance-monthly.com Firm Profile Thai Union Group PCL is the world’s seafood leader bringing high quality, healthy, tasty and innovative seafood products to customers across the world for almost 40 years, proud of our global brand portfolio. Our vision is to become the world’s most trusted seafood leader, caring for our resources to nurture generations to come. As a company, we are firmly committed to innovative, sustainable and ethical business practices, encouraging globally responsible behavior at every level. Thai Union is a proud member of the United Nations Global Compact, a founding member of the International Seafood Sustainable Foundation and the company’s work in sustainability has been recognized by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for two years running. THAILAND Finance Monthly CFO Awards 2016 Contact Details THAI UNION GROUP PCL 979/12 M Floor, S.M. Tower Phaholyothin Road Samsennai, Phayathai Bangkok 10400, Thailand www.thaiunion.com Joerg Ayrle CFO at Thai Union About Joerg Ayrle Mr. Ayrle brings in depth financial experience in key functions including accounting, treasury, mergers, acquisitions and post-merger integration. Prior to joining Thai Union, he enjoyed a long tenure with German conglomerate - SIEMENS group and worked across multiple business units and geographies including Germany, Singapore, China and the United States. Aside from his expertise and passion for key financial disciplines, Mr. Ayrle is also a seasoned strategic business partner who has spearheaded critical business turnaround projects that have significantly improved financial and organizational performances. His most recent position was as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at Osram Sylvania, a US subsidiary of SIEMENS. Prior to this role, he served as SIEMENS’ Managing Director of Corporate Finance Mergers and Acquisitions Asia, based in Beijing. He has held a number of senior executive roles within SIEMENS while based in China and Germany. Since joining Thai Union, Joerg and his team have been instrumental in building a strong insight driven performance culture, adding a clear cash flow focus to the companies KPI and building a Bangkok-based treasury center on the back of a global treasury license granted by the Bank of Thailand. The global treasury operations have been able to release 40m USD in idle cash from Thai Union’s balance sheet, while introducing a supply chain finance process which reduced working capital by 50m USD and lowered foreign currency volatility. Together with Thai Union’s Strategy team, he was able to close 7 acquisitions and joint ventures. Mr. Ayrle holds an MBA from the University of Augsburg, Germany. 59